The real reason they're doing this is because most minors can't pay lmao

This looks absolutely horrendous especially horrendous to hold, yeah, no thanks.

Absolute piece of garbage browser, just use firefox and or ladybird once it comes out

It's still shit but I wonder, what is really the thing anyone is trying to accomplish here?

Genuinely.

It's trying to rob people of opportunity to ever migrate and or seek a better life? not just between countries which will very obviously be restricted if actual AGI is ever achieved. Why would you ever give the chance for anyone to come to your country if you do not need their skillset? It would also prevent rural people/town people from going to the big cities.

The obvious end goal is to create a bunch of different "permanent" classes or at least they hope so, I think however you can expect a ton of violence to come from this and people will wish they never invested the resources into this, something beyond what the french revolution ever was, I'm not saying I think it should happen or not, I'm just pointing out the obvious outcome of robbing people of value/worth/dreams in their life.

They will never do this

If I was dealing with the same type of "person" that's only "contribution" to every github repo is to just go and ask for language policing I would intentionally be as prickly as possibly to them while telling them no.

Then you’d be a bad steward.

The only real threat to firefox is ladybird, that's it, Brave and other chromium browsers are not it.

app stores always seemed dystopian to me

To me it's not really the concept of the app store that's dystopian, it's not that different from a deb or rpm repository. What is dystopian is the level of control the OS vendor maintains over the entire ecosystem.

>it's not that different from a deb or rpm repository

The difference is that the default app stores require you to make an account to be able to use them. This would rightfully be considered insane on desktop OSs, yet is considered normal for phones.

Also apt supports multiple repositories and you can add your own. The Play Store app only supports Google's app repository and doesn't interoperate.

Is it really that insane of itself? I don't see many people arguing that Valve is evil for requiring a Steam account to access their game library (ignoring the online activation/DRM question).

It’s not insane because Valve is not the OS provider, and you can install as many “app stores” as you want. Even SteamOS doesn’t lock down the OS so Steam is the only way to install software.

Annoyances like requiring an account become a preference, because you have alternatives.

You don't need an account to browse the steam store, you need one to verify you're a user before downloading/installing a game, or (obviously) buying a game.

In a perfect world, you wouldn't need an account to buy or download something, either. It's too bad we've somehow normalized this idea that you need an account just to buy something.

So true, please use random no-name services with unvetted E2EE crypto or mainstream services with none instead.

Much better than Signal, the platform of choice for politicians, feds, and security researchers for their personal and private communications.

I think you have to assume any USA/5 eyes based org is compromised.

But only NSA/CIA level access and local law enforcement or politicians. So unless you are a terrorist or high level threat it wouldn't be accessed.

Haha, no, EncroChat and Anom were. The official clients (Android and iOS) which use it contain known vulnerabilities.